Planet X by Eduard Joseph

PROLOGUE
    The first time
the world heard about the notorious and illusive Planet X it
sounded like far-fetched science fiction at the time, and sometimes
still does, but it doesn’t make the threat any less real or
imminent: a star or rogue planet on a collision course with
earth.
    Just like
every year, new doomsday prophecies and conspiracies surfaced back
in 2014 and none of them sounded more intriguing and unreal as the
theory of a rogue planet that may or may not collide with planet
earth in 2017.
    The topic of
Planet X was on everyone’s lips by 2015 when NASA and world leaders
all denied the existence of this supermassive earth-like planet and
its elongated orbit around our sun that reportedly took 3,600 years
to complete. What NASA didn’t realise at the time was that the best
way to convince the public you’re not telling the whole truth was
to deny it. It was proven time and time again by famous denials;
such as the one by Bill Clinton and his intern scandal.
    During 2015,
the internet group Anonymous gained notoriety and fame by
hacking, cracking and sharing all sorts of top secret files, plots
and other shenanigans of world leaders, the wealthy and everything
in-between.
    It was on
August 2015 that Anonymous uploaded another viral video
about a government cover-up; this time about Planet X. The
conspiracy theory was that NASA sent a Voyager to the limits of our
solar system back in the early 2000’s in an attempt to “study”
Pluto, but the real reason for this mission was to establish
whether or not the theorised Planet X, also known as the Biblical Wormwood or Nibiru, truly existed.
    The mission
was abandoned in 2010 with NASA claiming that they’ve concluded
their study of Pluto, but the truth was that they found the
theorised Planet X and were scurrying to devise some kind of
contingency plan after studying its orbit – an orbit that slingshot
it from trillions of miles beyond Pluto, through our solar system
and around the sun every 3,600 years – narrowly missing earth each
time, but causing havoc every time it entered the inner solar
system.
    Anonymous
hacked the NASA systems and shared the vital need-to-know
information with the world so that we all may have a fighting
chance.
    December 2016:
With the cat out of the bag, the first images of Planet X
approaching Jupiter were released by NASA and it finally hit most
people; something was heading our way that we couldn’t understand
and couldn’t stop. Though we couldn’t see it with the naked eye in
the night sky, we knew it was out there – heading our way with
nothing to stop it.
    The effects
were undeniable. The gravitational pull of the approaching Planet X
not only disrupted Jupiter’s rotation, but also caused enormous
weather anomalies like hurricanes and superstorms on Jupiter’s
surface. It would graze Jupiter at just under an astronomical unit;
roughly half the distance from the earth to the sun.
    January 2017:
Images released by NASA of Planet X side-by-side with Jupiter as it
approached showed the unimaginable size of the rogue planet –
though it was dwarfed by Jupiter, it was nearly ten times the size
of planet earth; causing a lot of concern as to what would happen
to earth if such a small rogue planet could wreak havoc on a giant
like Jupiter.
    August 2017:
The rogue planet passed through the asteroid belt; sending hundreds
of asteroids our way as it approached Mars and new calculations
showed that a collision wasn’t eminent, but rather that it would be
a near-miss in astronomical terms as the planet would propel itself
past earth at just over half an astronomical unit on its way to
slingshot around the sun.
    We were
warned, however, that the close encounter wouldn’t be without
unprecedented effects; some people heeding the warning while others
ignored world leaders’ pleas. At the end of September 2017, a
downpour of asteroids and meteors ravaged Europe and Asia – killing
millions of people. Those who didn’t die during